Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines and I have the pleasure and delight to be the village's Conservative Councillor. But these are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Saturday, 19 July 2014

Socialism turns people into cheats...

From 1961
to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided one nation into two distinct political
regimes. We exploited this natural experiment to investigate whether the socio-political
context impacts individual honesty. Using an abstract die-rolling task, we
found evidence that East Germans who were exposed to socialism cheat more than
West Germans who were exposed to capitalism. We also found that cheating was
more likely to occur under circumstances of plausible deniability.

Of course here we are not at all surprised. We know that non-market systems protect privilege and promote favour-mongering even in law-abiding and mostly non-socialist Britain.

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From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided one nation into two distinct political regimes. We
exploited this natural experiment to investigate whether the socio-political context impacts
individual honesty. Using an abstract die-rolling task, we found evidence that East Germans
who were exposed to socialism cheat more than West Germans who were exposed to
capitalism. We also found that cheating was more likely to occur under circumstances of
plausible deniability. - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/moral-effects-of-socialism.html#sthash.4w1nOOS1.dpuf